Description:
RAMON CASAS I CARBO (SPANISH 1866 -1932)
Portrait of a Young Lady in a Blue Hat
,
pastel on paper
39 x 30 cm (15 1/4 x 11 7/8 in.) [sight]
signed lower left
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Provenance
Sala Parés, Barcelona
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1972
Exhibited
Barcelona, Sala Parés, Una exposición extraordinaria. Horas felices de la pintura catalana, 1972, no. 8, illustrated in the catalogue
Barcelona, Sala Parés, Homenatge a Ramón Casas 1866-1932 amb motiu del 50è aniversari de la seva mort, 1982, no. 12
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Ramón Casas
SPANISH
1866 - 1932
CHULA CON PAÑUELO AZUL (GIRL WITH A BLUE SCARF)
signed R Casas lower right
oil on canvas
73 by 46.5cm., 28¾ by 18¼in.
This work is in good overall condition and ready to hang. Original canvas. Under ultra-violet light two areas in part of the figure's left arm and drapery fluoresce green and these are likely attributable to the artist's pigments; there are some scattered minor strokes of retouching notably in the figure's left arm and in the lower right quadrant, and in the centre of the upper edge a 4cm vertical stroke. Some further retouchings may be obscured by the varnish, however these are likely to be minor. As visible in the catalogue illustration there are two minor circa 3-4cm diagonal scuffs near the left edge. Presented in a silver-gilt frame, with a cloth-covered inner slip and a nameplate.

LOT 187
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
RAMÓN CASAS
SPANISH, 1866 - 1932
RETRATO DE EDUARDO NIETO, EL MARQUÉS DE VILLAMIZAR (EDUARDO NIETO,KNOWN AS THE MARQUIS OF VILLAMIZAR)
200,000—300,000 GBP
measurements
135 by 75cm., 53 by 29½in.
Description
signed R. Casas lower right
oil on canvas
PROVENANCE
Private collection, SpainAcquired from the above by the present owner in 1988
EXHIBITED
Barcelona, Sala Parés, Primera Exposició Ramón Casas,organitzada per 'Pèl & Ploma', 1899, no. 12Barcelona, Sala Parés, Homenatge a Ramón Casas 1866-1932 amb motiudel 50è aniversari de la seva mort, 1982, no. 29
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
Alfonso Alcolea Albero, Ramón Casas, Barcelona, 1990, p. 173,listed & illustratedIsabel Coll, Ramón Casas, Catálogo Razonado, 2002, p. 45, a detailillustrated; p. 226, illustratedMuseu Nacional d'art de Catalunya, Barcelona; Fundación CulturalMapfre Vida, Madrid, Ramón Casas. El pintor del modernismo, exh.cat., 2001, p. 267, illustrated
CATALOGUE NOTE
Painted circa 1892-94, the sitter for the present work wasEduardo Nieto, Casas' brother-in-law, sometimes referred to by thetitle of his father, the Marquis of Villamizar. Casas' elegantdepiction of his in-law standing in a courtyard in the Casas familyhome exhibits the high regard the artist felt towards hissubject.During the mid-1890s Casas was in particular demand for hislikenesses, painting the intellectual, economic and political eliteof Barcelona, Paris, Madrid and beyond. As John Richardson writes:'Casas delighted the bourgeoisie with portraits that could be asfashionable or informal as the sitter required; and he delightedthe general public with the boldness of his posters and (later) thejoie de vivre of his decorations for Els Quatres Gats' (JohnRichardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. I, 1881-1906, London, 1991, p.115). It was during the 1890s that Casas shared a flat in Paris withSantiago Rusiñol near the Moulin de la Galette, and exhibited inBarcelona with both Rusiñol and Enric Clarasó. During these keyyears too he also embarked on some of his most politically chargedand complex multi-figural compositions, in particular Garrote Vilin 1894 and Embarque de tropas in 1896.
Private collection, SpainAcquired from the above by the present owner in 1988